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...attending the factory's closing ceremony had other ideas. Florian Kaps, an Austrian entrepreneur and Polaroid enthusiast, and André Bosman, until then the engineering manager of the Enschede plant, met by chance on that fateful day. Together they decided to find a way to bring instant photography back to life. (See "Who We Were: America in Snapshots...
...issue came to a boil as the National Governors Association (NGA) met in Biloxi, Miss. At a luncheon with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - who until April had been governor of Kansas - her former colleagues vented their anger at the idea of being handed the bill for yet another Washington initiative. Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times that he regarded the proposed expansion of Medicaid as "the mother of all unfunded mandates" and warned, "Medicaid is a poor vehicle for expanding coverage." (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...Moscow When Barack Met Dmitri On his first trip to the Russian capital since taking office, President Obama and counterpart Dmitri Medvedev agreed to slash their nuclear stockpiles more than 25%, marking their lowest levels since the end of the Cold War. Obama hailed the pact, which requires ratification by the U.S. Senate, as a key step toward reducing the risk of nuclear proliferation in unstable nations such as Iran and North Korea. Less progress was made on the thorny issues of Georgia and a proposed U.S. missile-defense system in Eastern Europe. After a face-to-face with Prime...
...report said Kenyatta, son of the first President of Kenya, met with other MPs from his party to plan retaliatory violence by ethnic Kikuyus, the tribe to which Kenyatta belongs. "They also contributed funds and organized militia for retaliatory violence," the report stated...
...reconciling Hamas and Fatah continue, but little progress is expected because Hamas has little incentive to make the concessions that Fatah is demanding. Hamas believes it has the momentum at home and abroad. Just last week, it was revealed that Thomas Pickering, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., had met with Hamas leaders, though the Obama Administration continues to insist that it will not engage with Hamas until the organization renounces violence, recognizes Israel and abides by past agreements. (While Hamas has signaled a willingness to talk to the U.S. about finding a formula to coexist with Israel, it refuses...